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  • Miami Beach cop at center of banana dispute has history of complaints, record shows

    08/31/2011 8:58:12 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 5 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | August 31, 2011 | Julie K. Brown
    A Miami Beach police officer accused of hassling the sister of pop star Beyoncé in a dispute over an inflated banana has had 16 internal affairs complaints filed against him, and 33 documented incidents of using force to make an arrest in his 16 years with the department. Officer John Pereira was suspended for 120 hours in 2005 for using excessive force, and has been reprimanded three times, including once for violating the department's rules for integrity, records show. Pereira, who was in uniform working an off-duty shift at Club Cameo in South Beach, allegedly intervened when Solange Knowles was...